Thursday, August 6, 2015

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What's Left on Your Summer "Wouldn't It Be Fun?" List?

Where we live, school begins in a few weeks. Although I'm looking forward to having the children return to school and regaining much-needed quiet during my workday, I would also welcome some extra time to finish all the things we had on our "Wouldn't it be fun?" list. You know . . . those things that pop into your head that you may even have purchased supplies to do with the best of intentions, but never actually got to them.

What's left on my family's list this summer?

Wouldn't it be fun to make tie dye shirts for the whole family? I found a great deal on a large tie dye kit on Amazon last month! I was super-excited and even bought a white t-shirt for each member of the family at A.C. Moore a couple of weeks ago. That's as far as I got. THERE'S STILL HOPE!

Wouldn't it be fun to make slushies anytime we wanted to? I bought the ice shaver machine to grind up the ice before summer began. I bought some red punch this week and started to make extra ice this morning. THIS WILL HAPPEN!

Wouldn't it be fun to make our own taco shells and experiment with different fillings? I bought a pan to make our own taco shells out of corn tortillas at the beginning of the summer. That's as far as I got. Unless my husband takes the lead on this one, IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD!

Wouldn't it be fun to make a framed dollhouse miniature version of my daughter's artwork? I bought an antique looking dollhouse miniature picture frame many months ago. That's as far as I got. If #7 happens, then THERE'S STILL HOPE!

Wouldn't it be fun to make our own cinnamon and sugar tortilla bowls to serve ice cream in? I bought two wavy tortilla shell pans a year ago from a school fundraiser. I really think think our children would love this dessert idea. With so many other fun things on this list, this one seems sort of low priority, doesn't it? IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD!

Wouldn't it be fun to get our oldest son into building model cars? He bought the model a couple of weeks ago from A.C. Moore. He even used his own money. My husband and he started to paint the parts one evening. It looked like it was a great father-son activity. They haven't touched it again since. (The same thing happened with the robotic arm my son got for Christmas.) We need to teach our son to finish what he starts! THIS WILL HAPPEN!

Wouldn't it be fun to build our daughter a dollhouse that can hang on the wall? We bought this cool, but simple hanging dollhouse kit for our daughter since she began showing an interest in collecting dollhouse miniatures. My husband and daughter started building it, but then we had a mishap with the scrapbook paper he was using for the wallpaper. When we went to buy more, the craft store was out of that particular print. Two weeks later, we were able to find it back in stock. We bought the paper, but they haven't touched it since. Between the kit and the supplies, we've spent well-over a hundred dollars on this dollhouse. THIS WILL HAPPEN!

Wouldn't it be fun to clean out the basement and have a place for the children to practice Taekwondo and perhaps have a ping pong table? If possible, there might be more things in the basement now than at the beginning of the summer. IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD!

Wouldn't it be fun if we had a Disney fund jar? We think the children are around the perfect age to go to Disney, but we need to save quite a bit of money for the trip. This is something we'd like to encourage the children to participate in. I bought the personalized vinyl decal and I already have an old-fashioned reach-in candy jar I can use for this. You know, the kind that sits tilted with a round knobbed lid. I think every time I read the instructions for applying the decal, it seems so technical that I put it off for later. I just have to sit down and do it! THIS WILL HAPPEN!

Wouldn't it be fun to let our youngest son loose on the beach with his metal detector? He got a kids metal detector for Christmas, so we're all set there. Now we just have to get to the beach. We have a trip planned before school starts. If we don't forget to pack the metal detector, we'll be all set. THIS WILL HAPPEN!

Wouldn't it be fun to take the whole family to New York City for the weekend? We've said this multiple times throughout the past year or two. That's all we've done is talk about it though. The next step would be to reserve a weekend when we don't already have plans, find kid-friendly hotel accommodations, buy the bus tickets, plan an itinerary, and . . . IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD!

Wouldn't it be fun to turn this closet into a book nook for the kids? This is my latest "Wouldn't it be fun?" thought. Well, I actually planned it out and ordered just about everything I need to set it up. We're almost done emptying the closet out and my husband just bought paint and supplies to give the closet interior a fresh coat. I'm super-excited about this project, as are the children. I'll definitely take photos of our progress and share them in a blog post when we're done. THIS WILL HAPPEN!

What items on your list fall into the categories of THIS WILL HAPPEN, THERE'S STILL HOPE, and IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD?